[CPEO-MEF] Rocky Mountain Arsenal (CO) milestone

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Another 7,000 acres of old arsenal cleaned

By Ann Imse
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
December 20, 2005

The Army and the Shell oil company have completed cleanup of another 
7,000 acres of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, the former chemical- weapons 
and pesticide plant northeast of Denver.

Officials expect that by spring they will begin the process of removing 
this land from the Superfund list and adding it to the existing 5,000- 
acre wildlife refuge on the site.

After the transfer, expected by autumn, the wildlife area will cover 
most of the Manhattan-size arsenal site, excluding 4,000 acres at the 
center that once contained more than 200 chemical-industrial buildings.

This was the most contaminated section, and cleanup will take another 
five to six years, said Charley Scharmann, the Army's civilian project 
manager.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4328706,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
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